Figure 2.

(Color online) Effect of an isotropic substrate stiffness increase on cell contractility as predicted by (a) the model and (b) experimental methods.¹⁰ (c) Schematic representation of experimental set up in Ref. 10, with $N_p\simeq 100$. The effect of constant stretch on the volume fraction of SF ${\phi }_0^{\mathit{sf}}$ in direction α = 0 is shown in (d), and (e) shows the orientation and disassembly of myofibrils (when overstretched)¹¹ with the arrows representing the direction of stretch. (f) is the angular distribution.